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suggests Norman Warwick

Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way

by Ryan White

As we keep on saying here in the office, we´re gonna need a bigger bookshelf, not least because the sad, recent detah of Jimmy Buffet will surely trigger more fact-based biographies about him and more apocryphal and  fiction-led stories inspired by him, to add to a long list of titles that all attribute one of music´s great characters in one capacity or another.

Today we recommend a couple of selections form that extensive list.

Jimmy himself  said it had been a good life all the way and this candid, compelling, and rollicking portrait of Buffett, the pirate captain of Margaritaville shows that there was fact among the fiction.

In Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, acclaimed music critic Ryan White has crafted the first definitive account of Buffett’s rise from singing songs for beer to his emergence as a tropical icon and CEO behind the Margaritaville industrial complex, a vast network of merchandise, chain restaurants, resorts, and lifestyle products all inspired by his sunny but disillusioned hit “Margaritaville.”

Filled with interviews from friends, musicians, Coral Reefer Band members past and present, and business partners who were there, this book is a top-down joyride with plenty of side trips and meanderings from Mobile and Pascagoula to New Orleans, Key West, down into the islands aboard the Euphoria and the Euphoria II, and into the studios and onto the stages where the foundation of Buffett’s reputation was laid.

Buffett wasn’t always the pied piper of beaches, bars, and laid-back living. Born on the Gulf Coast, the son of a son of a sailing ship captain, Buffett scuffed around New Orleans in the late sixties, flunked out of Nashville (and a marriage) in 1971, and found refuge among the artists, dopers, shrimpers, and genuine characters who’d collected at the end of the road in Key West. And it was there, in those waning outlaw days at the last American exit, where Buffett, like Hemingway before him, found his voice and eventually brought to life the song that would launch Parrot Head nation.

And just where is Margaritaville? It’s wherever it’s five o’clock; it’s wherever there’s a breeze and salt in the air; and it’s wherever Buffett sets his bare feet, smiles, and sings his songs.

 A Pirate Looks at Fifty

by Jimmy Buffett

For the millions of fans of Jimmy Buffett’s music as well as his bestselling books, Tales From Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant?, here is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it.  As hard as it is to believe, the irrepressible Jimmy Buffett has hit the half-century mark and, in A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50, he brings us along on the remarkable journey which he took through the Southern hemisphere to celebrate this landmark birthday.
        
Jimmy takes us from the legendary pirate coves of the Florida Keys to the ruins of ancient Cartegena.  Along the way, we hear a tale or two of how he got his start in New Orleans, how he d in Nantucket harbor.  We follow Jimmy to jungle outposts in Costa Rica and on a meandering trip down the Amazon, through hair-raising negotiations with gun-toting customs  officials and a 3-year-old aspiring co-pilot.  And he is the inimitable Jimmy Buffett through it all.
        
For Parrotheads, for armchair adventurers, and for anyone who appreciates a good yarn and a hearty laugh, here is the ultimate backstage pass — you’ll read the kind of stories Jimmy usually reserves for his closest friends and you’ll see a wonderful, wacky life through eyes of the man who’s lived it.   A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50 is a breath of fresh air and a ingenious manual for getting to 50 . . . and beyond.is covered including his passion for flying planes, and how he almost died in a watery crash.

Jimmy Buffett died on xxx 2023 and sadly I never got to see him perform live. However, I saw enough tv clips and playlisted enough albums of his and I feel pretty sure he´d have been one hell of a guy to hang out with. He was pbviously a great creator of witty one-liners the echoed profundity long after the laughter had died down.

We have lost another of the good guys.